UNIT 6 WORLD HISTORY VOCAB
Across
- 4. The Political and Social system that existed in France before the French Revolution
- 7. free from ignorance and false ideas; possessing sound understanding
- 11. Land, labor, and capital; the three groups of resources that are used to make all goods and services
- 12. An assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in France.
- 13. The main leader of the Haitian independence movement.
- 14. A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789
- 20. A person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risks of a business.
- 21. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil.
- 22. The development of industries for the machine production of goods.
Down
- 1. Queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular her extravagance and opposition to reform contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy; she was guillotined along with her husband (1755-1793)
- 2. Condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries.
- 3. A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.
- 5. A system that allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power.
- 6. French for "philosopher"; applied to all intellectuals during the Enlightenment
- 8. the document recording the proclamation of the second Continental Congress (4 July 1776) asserting the independence of the colonies from Great Britain
- 9. Scottish economist who wrote the Wealth of Nations a precursor to modern Capitalism.
- 10. "The Social Contract", people are born good but environment and education corrupts them
- 15. A movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions.
- 16. A major influence of the Latin American revolutions because of its successfulness; the only successful slave revolt in history; it is led by Toussaint L'Ouverture.
- 17. The first ten amendments to the Constitution
- 18. An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.
- 19. 1783-1830, Venezuelan statesman: leader of revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule.